Awful Purdies

Arts and Culture

6:35 am

Wed August 21, 2013

Iowa City Librarian Jason Paulios looks at recently organized CDs that were donated to the library. Paulios says he gets a lot of donations when school at the University of Iowa starts and ends as students come and go on campus.

Despite changes in how Americans are listening to music, think Pandora or Spotify, people are still checking out physical CDs from libraries. A recent PEW report found that half of Americans visited a library last year, and 16 percent of them checked out music.

But just as libraries are introducing eBooks to readers – librarians are also trying to figure out how to get digital music to library goers. Iowa City has launched a digital music library that focuses on its local music scene.